7 Best crime books like My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home by Alison O'Reilly

Cover of My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home by Alison O'Reilly

My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

By: Alison O'Reilly

4.07

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby …

If you liked the crime plot in My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home by Alison O'Reilly , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Other Side Of The Wall

By: Andrea Mara

4.05

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sylvia looks out her bedroom window at night and sees a child face down in the pond next door,… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Mara's The Other Side Of The Wall book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • crime
  • irish literature
Cover of Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 by Michihiko Hachiya, John W. Dower, None

2. Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945

By: Michihiko Hachiya , John W. Dower , None

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world… read more

Similar categories in Michihiko Hachiya's Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. The Wedding Party

By: Robyn Carr

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Charlene Dugan has decided to get married and has sent everyone around her into a spin. The party i… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Carr's The Wedding Party book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • audiobook
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4. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search

By: Martin Sixsmith

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoma… read more

Similar categories in Martin Sixsmith's The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
Cover of The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me by Alex Tresniowski, Paul Joseph Fronczak

5. The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

By: Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

"A gripping tale of secrets and self-discovery." --People The Foundlingtells the incredible and ins… read more

Similar categories in Alex Tresniowski's The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • audiobook
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6. Asking For It

By: Louise O'Neill

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, … read more

Similar categories in Louise O'Neill's Asking For It book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • irish literature
Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

7. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2) by Alison Weir

9. The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)

By: Alison Weir

4.03

Format: 593 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of t… read more

Similar categories in Alison Weir's The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2) book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • audiobook
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10. Over Sharing

By: Jane Fallon

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The queen of revenge comedy is back with a hilariously sharp and refreshing new novel Can you li… read more

Similar categories in Jane Fallon's Over Sharing book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • audiobook
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11. Letters of Freedom

By: Jean Grainger

4.34

Format: None pages, None

Somewhere between the light and the shadow, the cared for and the unloved, stands Carmel Sheehan. C… read more

Similar categories in Jean Grainger's Letters of Freedom book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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12. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Quite

By: Claudia Winkleman

4.04

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Funny, moving and truthful… Quite Claudia Winkleman’s warmth, humour, no-holds-barred attitude a… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Winkleman's Quite book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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14. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's The Seven Ages of Death book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Someone in the Attic

By: Andrea Mara

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family wh… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Mara's Someone in the Attic book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • audiobook
"People trust people with dogs. They do. There’s an inherent belief that dog people are good people."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

"They’re keen to help and intrigued too, she can see, in that way people are when there’s drama but no personal risk."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

Cover of Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief by Katriona O'Sullivan

16. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

Similar categories in Katriona O'Sullivan's Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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17. At the Table

By: Claire Powell

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more

Similar categories in Claire Powell's At the Table book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • audiobook
Cover of The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails by Vanessa Frake

18. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • audiobook
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19. Aisling Ever After

By: Emer McLysaght

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more

Similar categories in Emer McLysaght's Aisling Ever After book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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20. Aisling and the City

By: Emer McLysaght

4.08

Format: 402 pages, None

Aisling is 31, and she’s still a complete Aisling. With BallyGoBrunch flying and the door firmly cl… read more

Similar categories in Emer McLysaght's Aisling and the City book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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21. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

Similar categories in Charles Spencer's A Very Private School: A Memoir book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Return to the Irish Boarding House (The Irish Boarding House #2)

By: Sandy Taylor

4.32

Format: 343 pages, ebook

Mary Kate takes a deep breath as she stands outside 24 Merrion Square with its red front door and p… read more

Similar categories in Sandy Taylor's Return to the Irish Boarding House (The Irish Boarding House #2) book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • ireland
Cover of Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life by Kate   Marshall

23. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

Similar categories in Kate Marshall's Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Common Decency

By: Susannah Dickey

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and lo… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Dickey's Common Decency book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Belonging: One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies by Catherine Corless

25. Belonging: One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies

By: Catherine Corless

4.66

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

When 51-year-old Catherine Corless decided to enrol in an evening course in local history, she had … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Corless's Belonging: One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
Cover of Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries by Maureen Sullivan

26. Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries

By: Maureen Sullivan

4.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being phy… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Sullivan's Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • nonfiction
  • ireland
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27. My Mother's Eyes

By: Shanelle Dawson

3.73

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine living with the knowledge that your father had murdered your mother and lied to you your wh… read more

Similar categories in Shanelle Dawson's My Mother's Eyes book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • audiobook
Cover of Madhouse: The naked truth about my chaotic childhood, losing my mind and finding a place to call home by PJ Gallagher

28. Madhouse: The naked truth about my chaotic childhood, losing my mind and finding a place to call home

By: PJ Gallagher

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Nothing about PJ Gallagher's life has followed the usual script . . . Adopted at six months old by … read more

Similar categories in PJ Gallagher's Madhouse: The naked truth about my chaotic childhood, losing my mind and finding a place to call home book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

Cover of My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home by Alison O'Reilly

29. My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

By: Alison O'Reilly

4.07

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby … read more

Similar categories in Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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30. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Think Again book and Alison O'Reilly's My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

Cover of A Guarded Life: My story of the dark side of An Garda Síochána by Majella Moynihan

31. A Guarded Life: My story of the dark side of An Garda Síochána

By: Majella Moynihan

4.37

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

A GARDA, A FORCED ADOPTION, A FIGHT FOR JUSTICEIn 1984, Majella Moynihan was a fresh-faced young ga… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature

20 Top audiobook books like My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home by Alison O'Reilly

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The Wedding Party

Robyn Carr

3.49

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The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Miriam Margolyes

4.08

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Cat Lady

Dawn O'Porter

3.89

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Quite

Claudia Winkleman

4.04

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Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

Daisy May Cooper

4.10

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